Word: medium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damp snow (temperatures just above freezing): Ostbye "Medium...
...real art of waxing comes in combining various forms of waxes. For instance, on a long tour the snow at the starting point is fairly wet, but a few hundred feet above it is freezing. For this one can put on an original coating of medium," allow it to cool, and cover it with a very thin coating of "mix." The "mix" will glide well over the dry snow at the beginning of the run down, and will wear off soon after reaching the wet snow, then the under coating of medium will serve its purpose...
Newhaven: Just as the cheap and therefore inconspicuous night boat from this port to France is about to sail, Mrs. Simpson arrives in the Buick the King gave her, accompanied by his bodyguard, a secretary and chauffeur. In a private cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which...
...word and a school were born.* Excerpt: "Surrealism rests in the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of association neglected heretofore ; in the omnipotence of the dream and in the disinterested play of thought. . . . We who have not given ourselves to processes of filtering, who through the medium of our work have been content to be the silent receptacle of many echoes . . . are perhaps yet serving a much nobler cause." Surrealism in plainer language is an attempt to explore the subconscious mind and to evoke emotional reactions through the illogical juxtaposition of objects. The difference between the cubists...
...recommendation, 1) that the U. S. build one large airship for Naval use, two for transatlantic passenger service; 2) that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 be made applicable to airships; 3) that the Los Angeles be restored to flying status as a Navy training ship; 4) that a medium-sized dirigible be built or bought for the Navy as a training ship to replace the Los Angeles. The Merchant Marine Act created the potent new Maritime Commission, provides for two kinds of direct government subsidy-to shipbuilders of as much as 50% of construction costs; to ship operators sufficient...